About business Hi people! Now I want to discuss with you a little bit about business. Recently I watched "The Man Who Built America" and it became a muse for writing that note. I have never been in US, but I read a lot about that country. I was born in the USSR, so my generation had to know about the country that was the enemy in a cold war. The thing that I really respect in the US is the way of entrepreneurship. As I know US was founded by European mans that wanted to become rich, independent and famous. They worked really hard and created a really powerful ventures. And that spirit is still in the heart of people. In the other side Russia that had almost 70 years of communism that dissolve any enterpreneur spirit and destroyed a major part of intellectuals. I know that in the beginning of XX century the Russian Empire was one of the leaders in the world with a huge amount of factories and other enterprises. Russia was almost monopolist in providing Europe with grain and dairy products. But that almost all gone in communist era. In the USSR there was a punishment for an entrepreneurship and people had to work only for government. Russia is only 25 years old officially, since the USSR falls. And now we have a lot of new small businesses. I'm also trying to create my own business, and I feel that environment for development is still very raw. I see that we almost have no competitors in Russia. That situation has a good and a bad side. You can reach here 500% of year growth and way more than 100% of margin, but you need to "develop bicycles". Here we have to learn a business science from our western friends and adjust that knowledge to the modern Russian reality. Despite all the negative that we could hear from TV, I really think that Russia has a huge opportunities for young businessman to build the definitely new Russian dream.

Lucid dreams Hi everyone! Today I'm gonna talk about dreams. How often do you people notice that you are in a dream? What is that feeling? Do you ever had a deliberate fly in a dream? Today I had a dream that I'm in a country where I always wanted to be. I thought to myself: "Wow, what a strong feeling like I'm in a dream!", and after that I realized that I'm really in the dream! Colors became brighter, I walked several meters enjoying and woke up in a really good mood. Another lucid dream was several month ago after the whole day playing Minecraft :) I saw world made with blocks and thought: "Something is wrong here...". Next moment I realized that this is a lucid dream and started to fly. I I was able to manage the way of flying by just looking at the place where I wanna to be. That was really awesome. I fly all night and woke up. Do you know that there is a lot of technics for improving your awareness in dreams? Here is just two basic: 1. Try to imagine in your everyday life that you are in a dream. Try to make real world brighter with such type of awareness. It is awesome technic by itself! 2. Write all your dreams in a notebook. This technic will help you to remember your dreams after waking up. This is important because sometimes people is able to have lucid dreams but they just don't remeber them. I could talk a lot about lucid dreams, so if you are interested don't hesistate to contact me :)

Let's start Hi there! Some time ago I took lessons here and teacher told me that I need to tell more stories to improve my conversational skills. I had some break with my english practice and I did not use english at all. Now I need to speak again for my new project, so I'm here and I'll try to tell as much stories as I can about life, business etc. I'm working in IT-consulting company as project manager so I think some of my stories will be about that. Also I'm opening private kindergarten in Moscow and I think it'll be quite interesting to write about that. So I'll try to write a small note every day, wish me luck :)